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(4) Whether either in respect of any alteration, of the boundaries of the said borough heretofore made or in respect of any steps recommended by the Commission under the foregoing paragraphs hereof, it is desirable that the financial adjustments provided for by section 145 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, should be made, or whether in view thereof it is desirable that other adjustments of a special nature should by reason of the circumstances of the case be made, and, if so, what adjustments should be made. (5) Whether it is desirable that, the borough be divided into wards. (6) Whether a requisition under section 22 of the Health Act, 1920, issued by the Board of Health on the 15th day of June, 1926, requiring the Borough Council to provide within its district certain sanitary works therein specified should be given effect to ; and, if so, what steps should be taken in order that such requisition may be given effect to. (7) Whether, and to what extent, having regard to the purpose or purposes for which any lands in the borough are used, it is desirable that for the purpose of the levying of rates by the Borough Council, either for its own purposes or as a contributory local authority under any Act, such lands be valued on a special basis other than the basis of valuation thereof under the Valuation of Land Act, 1925. (8) If it is considered advisable that any lands in the borough be valued. for rating purposes on a special basis as aforesaid, then to what extent, if any, it is desirable that such lands be excluded from the rating-area in respect of any future loans secured by a special rate over rateable property within the borough. (9) To what extent, if any, it is desirable that lands that will not, or are not likely to, receive any benefit from the expenditure of loan-moneys should be excluded from the rating-area in respect of any future loans secured by a special rate over rateable property within the borough. (10) Whether it is practicable or desirable in any way to vary, by means of a system of differential rating, or by any other means, the incidence of rates and the relative amount of rates (whether general, special, or any other kind) that are or may hereafter be assessable in respect of any lands in the borough, or any lands that have been or will be excluded therefrom. (11) What restrictions, if any, should be placed upon the power of the Borough Council to amend under section 23 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, any special rate either in respect of lands within the borough or in respect of lands which have been or may be excluded from the borough but so as to remain liable for any special rate. (12) Whether, notwithstanding the provisions of the Rating Act, 1925, as to the adoption of any particular system of rating in any district, it is desirable that any system of rating other than that now in force in the borough should be in force therein, and, if so, what system and by what means it should be adopted. (13) In the event of the Commissioners reporting under the last preceding paragraph hereof that a system of rating other than that now in force in the borough should be adopted, what provision, if any, should be made for the future altering of the system so to be adopted. (14) Such other matters affecting or incidental to the Borough of Otaki, and the administration thereof by the Otaki Borough Council, as might come under the notice of the Commissioners in the course of their inquiries and as they might think it necessary and desirable to consider.

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